Controls of cell fate and pattern by 3' untranslated regions: The Caenorhabditis elegans sperm/oocyte decision

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 19-24

  Puoti, A ^a   Gallegos, M ^a   Zhang, B ^a   Wickens, M P ^a   Kimble, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; FUNGAL GENE; GERM LINE; HERMAPHRODITE; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; MOG GENE; OOCYTE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPERM;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

EID: 0031433557     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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